History of the United Netherlands, 1584-1609 Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the History of the United Netherlands, 1584-1609 novel. A total of 146 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : History of the United Netherlands, 1584-1609.by John Lothrop Motley.PREFACE.The indulgen
History of the United Netherlands, 1584-1609.by John Lothrop Motley.PREFACE.The indulgence with which the History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic was received has encouraged me to prosecute my task with renewed industry.A single word seems necessary to
- 101 But Villeroy told him that it was useless to say a word on that subject.His king insisted on the restoration of the place. Otherwise he would make no peace. It was enough, he said, that his Majesty said nothing about Navarre.Richardot urged that at the ti
- 102 The body was to be brought to the church, and placed in the stately tomb already prepared for its reception. "Ma.s.s being performed," said the king, "the prelate shall place me in the grave which shall be my last house until I go to my ete
- 103 Thus the revenues of his foreign dominions being nearly consumed by their necessary expenses, the measure of his positive wealth was to be found in the riches of Spain. But Spain at that day was not an opulent country. It was impossible that it should be
- 104 By John Lothrop Motley History United Netherlands, Volume 71, 1598-1599 CHAPTER x.x.xVI.Commercial prospects of Holland--Travels of John Huygen van Linschoten Their effect on the trade and prosperity of the Netherlands--Progress of nautical and geographic
- 105 But the agony was soon over. By the 1st September the s.h.i.+p was hard and fast. The ice was as immoveable as the dry land, and she would not move again that year even if she ever floated. Those pilgrims from the little republic were to spend the winter
- 106 CHAPTER x.x.xVII.Military Operations in the Netherlands--Designs of the Spanish Commander--Siege of Orsoy--Advance upon Rheinberg--Murder of the Count of Broeck and his garrison--Capture of Rees and Emmerich-- Outrages of the Spanish soldiers in the peace
- 107 At a little later period, at the time of certain informal and secret conferences at Gertruydenberg, the queen threatened the envoy with her severest displeasure, should the States dare to treat with Spain without her permission. "Her Majesty called o
- 108 Meanwhile, the States' army before Nieuport, not dreaming of any pending interruption to their labours, proceeded in a steady but leisurely manner to invest the city. Maurice occupied himself in tracing the lines of encampment and entrenchment, and o
- 109 During this "b.l.o.o.d.y bit," as Vere called it, between the infantry on both sides, the little battery of two field-pieces planted on the highest hillock of the downs had been very effective. Meantime, while the desperate and decisive struggle
- 110 Fables have even been told which indicated the popular belief in an intensity of resentment on the part of the prince, which certainly did not exist till long afterwards."Ah, scoundrel!" the stadholder was said to have exclaimed, giving the Advo
- 111 a.s.saults, sorties, repulses, ambuscades were also of daily occurrence, and often with very sanguinary results; but it would be almost as idle now to give the details of every encounter that occurred, as to describe the besieging of a snow-fort by school
- 112 Fifteen hundred of the enemy's dead were counted and registered by Auditor Fleming. The whole number of the slain and drowned was reckoned as high as two thousand, which was at least, a quarter of the whole besieging army. And so ended this winter ni
- 113 The same fishermen and fighting men, whom we have but lately seen sailing forth from Zeeland and Friesland to confront the dangers of either pole, were now contending in the Indian seas with the Portuguese monopolists of the tropics.A century long, the ge
- 114 The stadholder, against his will--for Maurice was never cruel--felt himself obliged to teach the cardinal better jurisprudence and better humanity for the future. In order to show him that there was but one belligerent law on sea and on land, he ordered t
- 115 I reserve for a subsequent chapter such rapid glances at the interior condition of that kingdom with which it seemed the destiny of the Dutch republic to be perpetually at war, as may be necessary to ill.u.s.trate the leading characteristics of the third
- 116 There should be three religions, said Elizabeth--not counting the dispensation from Mecca, about which Turk and Hun might be permitted to continue their struggle on the crepuscular limits of civilization.Everywhere else there should be toleration only for
- 117 De Rosny on the termination of his audience, was escorted in great state by the Earl of Northumberland to the barges.A few days later, the amba.s.sador had another private audience, in which the king expressed himself with apparent candour concerning the
- 118 The interview had lasted four hours. When it was concluded, James summoned Cecil, and in presence of the amba.s.sador and of some of the counsellors, lectured him soundly on his presumption in disobeying the royal commands in his recent negotiations with
- 119 But there was one serious impediment to the contemplated construction of the new earth-works. They had no earth. Nearly everything solid had been already scooped away in the perpetual delving. The sea-d.y.k.es had been robbed of their material, so that th
- 120 Thus an important portion of Zeeland was restored, to its natural owners.A seaport which in those days was an excellent one, and more than a compensation for the isolated fis.h.i.+ng village already beleaguered for upwards of three years, had been capture
- 121 Maurice, arriving at Deventer, and being now strengthened by his cousin Lewis William with such garrison troops as could be collected, learned the mortifying news with sentiments almost akin to despair. It was now to be a race for Coeworden, and the fleet
- 122 During the main operations already sketched in the Netherlands, and during those vastly more important oriental movements to which the reader's attention has just been called, a detached event or two deserves notice.Twice during the summer campaign o
- 123 On the 12th of November he broke up his camp and withdrew to a village called Zelem. On the same day the marquis, having relieved the city, without paying the expected price, retired in another direction, and established what was left of his army in the p
- 124 It would be certainly difficult to match in history the effrontery of such a question. The republican envoy was asked point blank whether his country would resign her dearly gained liberty and give herself as a dowry for Philip the Second's three-yea
- 125 The two leading commercial powers of the Old World were now to begin their great struggle for supremacy in the western hemisphere.A charter for what was called a West India Company was accordingly granted by the States-General. West India was understood t
- 126 Barneveld probably thought it not worth his while to reply that Philip, with those funds and those troops, had done his best to become King of France, and that his failure proved nothing for the argument either way.Neyen then returned once more to Brussel
- 127 "Either I am entirely mistaken in my countrymen," answered Gevaerta, "or they are coming for the express purpose of offering you battle."The Spaniard laughed loud and long. The idea that those puny vessels could be bent on such a purpose seemed to him
- 128 The proof of Moorish guilt was deemed all-sufficient, especially as it was supported by supernatural evidence of the most portentous and convincing kind. For several days together a dark cloud, tinged with blood-red, had been seen to hang over Valencia.In
- 129 What need to dilate further upon such a minister and upon such a system of government? To bribe and to be bribed, to maintain stipendiaries in every foreign Government, to place the greatness of the empire upon the weakness, distraction, and misery of oth
- 130 Especially Barberini exerted all the powers at his command to bring about a good understanding between the kings of France and Spain. He pictured to Henry, in darkest colours, the blight that would come over religion and civilization if the progress of th
- 131 The king thought that he had given so many proofs of his sincere friends.h.i.+p as to make doubt impossible; but he had found the contrary, for the States had accorded an armistice, and listened to overtures of peace, without deigning to consult him on th
- 132 Here is your chain, your ring, your banker's draught. Take them all back to your masters. Such gifts are not necessary to ensure a just peace, while to accept them would be a crime against liberty, which we are incapable of committing."Verreyken, astoni
- 133 As to the form of government, defective though it was, the leaders of the republic knew very well in whose interests such sly allusions to their domestic affairs were repeatedly ventured by the French envoys. In regard to treaties with foreign powers it w
- 134 ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: A sovereign remedy for the disease of liberty All the ministers and great functionaries received presents Because he had been successful (hated) But the habit of dissimulation was inveterate By turns, we all govern and are gover
- 135 "'Tis strange," replied the Spaniards, "that you wish to have more than other powers--kings or republics--who never make any such pretensions.The Indies, East and West, are our house, privately possessed by us for more than a hundred years, and no one
- 136 Especially, commercial greed induced the States to keep a firm clutch on the great river on which the once splendid city of Antwerp stood. Ever since that commercial metropolis had succ.u.mbed to Farnese, the republic had maintained the lower forts, by me
- 137 HISTORY OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce--1609 By John Lothrop Motley History United Netherlands, Volume 82, 1608 CHAPTER LI.Designs of Henry IV.--New marriage project between France and Spain
- 138 Certainly the prince fully deserved the confidence of the States, as well for his own signal services and chivalrous self-devotion, as for the unexampled sacrifices and achievements of William the Silent. His words had the true patriotic ring of his fathe
- 139 "'Tis a mischievous old monkey," said Villeroy on another occasion, "that likes always to turn its tail instead of going directly to the purpose."The archduke, however, was very indulgent to his plenipotentiary. "My good mast
- 140 The personal friends of Barneveld and the whole truce party were in consternation. Even the enemies of the Advocate shrank appalled at the prospect of losing the services of the foremost statesman of the commonwealth at this critical juncture. There was a
- 141 Meantime, Archduke Albert sent his father confessor, Inigo Brizuela, to Spain, in order to make the treaty posed by Jeannin palatable to the king?The priest was to set forth to Philip, as only a ghostly confessor could do with full effect, that he need no
- 142 They had not conceded Catholic wors.h.i.+p.Mankind were amazed at this result--an event hitherto unknown in history.When before had a sovereign acknowledged the independence of his rebellious subjects, and signed a treaty with them as with equals? When be
- 143 The revenue of the United Provinces was estimated at between seven and eight millions of florins.It is superfluous to call attention again to the wonderful smallness of the means, the minuteness of the physical enginry, as compared with more modern manife
- 144 It was the secret hope of the present monarch to repair the loss which the kingdom had suffered through the imbecility of his two immediate predecessors. But a great nation cannot with impunity permit itself to be despotically governed for thirty years by
- 145 The republic was among the wealthiest and the most powerful of organized States. Her population might be estimated at three millions and a half, about equal to that of England at the same period. But she was richer than England. Nowhere in the world was s
- 146 The wonder-man of Alkmaar, Cornelius Drebbel, who performed such astounding feats for the amus.e.m.e.nt of Rudolph of Germany and James of Britain, is also supposed to have invented the thermometer and the barometer. But this claim has been disputed. The